Lipid metabolism is fundamental to life. In insects, it is critical, during reproduction, flight,
starvation, and diapause. The coordination center for insect lipid metabolism is the fat body …

Triacylglycerol (TAG) is the most important caloric source with respect to energy
homeostasis in animals. In addition to its evolutionarily conserved importance as an energy …

Highlights•bHLH-PAS proteins Met and Tai form a JH receptor that mediates JH function in
vivo.•The Met–Tai receptor complex is a JH-activated transcription factor.•JH activates Met …

Tsetse flies are the sole vectors of human African trypanosomiasis throughout sub-Saharan
Africa. Both sexes of adult tsetse feed exclusively on blood and contribute to disease …

Lipids are the primary storage molecules and an essential source of energy in insects during
reproduction, prolonged periods of flight, starvation, and diapause. The coordination center …

Insects, like all heterotrophic organisms, acquire from their food the nutrients that are
essential for anabolic processes that lead to growth (larval stages) or reproduction (adult …

Juvenile hormone (JH) prevents insect larval metamorphosis and stimulates processes for
adult reproduction. Krüppel-homolog 1 (Kr-h1), a zinc finger transcription factor, is shown to …

The viviparous tsetse fly utilizes proline as a hemolymph-borne energy source. In tsetse,
biosynthesis of proline from alanine involves the enzyme alanine-glyoxylate …

Hormonal signaling provides metazoans with the ability to regulate development, growth,
metabolism, immune defense, and reproduction in response to internal and external stimuli …

More than a third of the world population is at constant risk of contracting some insect-
transmitted disease, such as Dengue fever, Zika virus disease, malaria, Chagas' disease …